2026/27 Grade 8

• The Secret to Belonging by Megan E Freeman

  
  

• Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan

  
  

• Across the Nightingale Floor by Lian Hearn

  
  

2023/24 Grade 8

• Peak by Roland Smith   

  
  

• Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen   

  
  

• I Am Still Alive by Kate Alice Marshall   

  
  

• Ducks by Kate Beaton (September 2024 reading)   

  
  

• 13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson   

  
  

• The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B by Teresa Toten   

  
  

2021/22 Grade 8

• Borders by Thomas King and Natasha Donovan   

  
  

• The Chrysalids by John Wyndham   

  
  

• A Swift Pure Cry by Siobhan Dowd   

  
  

• I've Been Meaning to Tell You by David Chariandy   

  
  

• Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid   

  
  

• Hamnet and Judith by Maggie O'Farrell   

  
  

• Circe by Madeline Miller   

  
  

2020/21 Grade 8

• Dune by Frank Herbert   

  
  

• Born A Crime by Trevor Noah   

  
  

• Genesis Begins Again by Alicia D. Williams   

  
  

• Merlin's Harp by Anne Eliot Crompton   

  
  

• From Charlie's Point of View by Richard Scrimger   

  
  

• Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X. Stork   

  
  

• The Inquisitor's Tale by Adam Gidwitz   

  
  

• Peak by Roland Smith   

  
  

• The Merciful Crow by Margaret Owen   

  
  

• Food Freak by Alex Van Tol   

  
  

• The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B by Teresa Toten   

  
  

• Every Day by David Leviathan   

  
  

• IT by Stephen King   

  
  

• The Godfather by Mario Puzo   

  
  

• Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley   

  
  

2018/19 Grade 8 & 9

• I Am Still Alive by Kate Alice Marshall   

  
  

• I've Been Meaning to Tell You by David Chariandy   

  
  

• Peak by Roland Smith   

  
  

2017/18 Grade 8 & 9

• Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus by Dusty Bowling   

  
  

• Love My Enemy by Kate Maclachlan   

  
  

• Genius: The Game by Leopold Gout   

  
  

• Flower for Algernon by Daniel Keys   

  
  

• Greener Grass by Caroline Pignat   

  
  

• Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer   

  
  

2014/15 Grade 8 & 9

• Nice Recovery by Susan Juby   

  
  

• Louis Riel by Craig Thompson   

  
  

• A Swift Pure Cry by Siobhan Dowd   

  
  

2013/14 Grade 8 & 9

• The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B by Teresa Toten   

  
  

• Audacious by Gabrielle Pendergast   

  
  

• The Theory of Everything by Kari Luna   

  
  

• Ask the Passengers by A.S. King   

  
  

• My Sister Lives on the Mantlepiece by Annabel Pitcher   

  
  

• Every Day by David Levithan   

  
  

• Across the Nightingale Floor by Lian Hearn   

  
  

• Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson   

  
  

• A Small Death in the Great Glen by A.D. Scott   

  
  

• Boys Don't Knit by T. S. Easton   

  
  

2012/13 Grade 8

• Silent to the Bone by E.L. Konigsburg   

  
  

• Love My Enemy by Kate Maclachlan   

  
  

• A Swift Pure Cry by Siobhan Dowd   

  
  

• Modoc by Rolf Helfer   

  
  

• First Stone by Don Aker   

  
  

• Bucking the Sarge by Christopher Paul Curtis   

  
  

• Lesser Blessed by Richard Van Camp   

  
  

• Flip by Martyn Bedford   

  
  

• I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith   

  
  

• Shattering Glass by Gail Giles   

  
  

2011/12 Grade 8

• The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan   

  
  

• I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith   

  
  

• The Double Life of Cassiel Roadnight by Jenny Valentine   

  
  

• The Rinaldi Ring by Jenny Nimmo   

  
  

• Life is Funny by E.R. Frank   

  
  

• Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones   

  
  

• Counterfeit Son by Elaine Marie Alphin   

  
  

• The Chrysalids by John Wyndham   

  
  

• True Blue by Deborah Ellis   

  
  

• Double Nothing by Dennis Foon   

  
  

2010/11 Grade 8

• The Chrysalids by John Wyndham   

  
  

• The First Stone by Don Aker   

  
  

• Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman   

  
  

• Death Benefits by Sarah N. Harvey   

  
  

• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie   

  
  

• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Tim by Mark Haddon   

  
  

• Junk by Melvin Burgess   

  
  

• The Unidentified by Rae Mariz   

  
  

• Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld   

  
  

• Time Riders by Alex Scarow   

  
  

• Bog Child by Siobhan Dowd   

  
  

2009/10 Grade 8

• The Reckoning of Boston Jim by Claire Mulligan   

  
  

• Luna by Julie Anne Peters   

  
  

• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen   

  
  

• The Lesser Blessed by Richard Van Camp   

  
  

• Tea Rose by Jennifer Donnelly   

  
  

• Another Kind of Cowboy by Susan Juby   

  
  

• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini   

  
  

• The Raging Quiet by Sherryl Jordan   

  
  

• Caught in the Crossfire by Alan Gibbons   

  
  

• Pirates! by Celia Rees   

  
  

• Dead Connection by Charlie Price   

  
  

• A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah   

  
  

• Resurrection Blues by Mike Tanner   

  
  

• Greener Grass by Caroline Pignat   

  
  

• My Big Fat Manifesto by Susan Vaught   

  
  

• Across the Nightingale Floor: Tales of the Otori by Lian Hearn   

  
  

2007/8 Grade 7 & 8

• Kit's Wilderness by David Almond   

  
  

• Ghost Boy by Iain Lawrence   

  
  

• Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes   

  
  

• Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin   

  
  

• Call of the Wild by Jack London   

  
  

• Rancour by James McCann   

  
  

• Alabama Moon by Watt Key   

  
  

• Cracker by Cynthia Kadohata   

  
  

• Ringmaster by Julia Golding   

  
  

• Burn My Heart by Beverly Naidoo   

  
  

• At the House of the Magician by Mary Hooper   

  
  

• For Now by Gayle Friesen   

  
  

• Mountain Girl River Girl by Ting-xing Ye   

  
  

• Buckling the Sarge by Christopher Paul Curtis   

  
  

• Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer   

  
  

• Godless by Pete Hauteman